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"Laptops are certainly not overrated, and from my experience laptops have been the standard form factor for office work for over a decade, and longer in some se

"Laptops are certainly not overrated, and from my experience laptops have been the standard form factor for office work for over a decade, and longer in some sectors." Yes they have. a.) Because of a status symbol ("why does only the tech department get Apple laptops?") and b.) because people want to have more options, the more the better. So if you have the option to move the Laptop, you get one no matter if you really move the laptop. Yes I understand this, I have had 10+ Apple Laptops.

KozmoNau7 6y ago
Usually there isn't even been a choice to make. Everyone just gets a laptop with a docking station, standard configuration Lenovo/Dell/HP. If you want a desktop PC, you need dispensation based on tasks or specific needs. It's been over a decade since a laptop was a "status symbol". A laptop lets you take your work with you, instead of having to futz around with USB sticks and conference/meeting room PCs that never work quite right. Laptops also simplify WFH enormously, something that has only become even more relevant over the last year. When I started at my current workplace ~14 years ago some of my colleagues had a desktop PC at work and one at home. At my workplace before that, desktop PCs were still the default, which was a whole mess of RDP-ing to your main office PC when you were at the remote server room office, and you'd better hope that nobody had accidentally switched it off while you were away. Luckily for them, they were finally switching everyone to laptops shortly before I left. With processing power leveling out as it has over the last couple of years, there really isn't much reason to choose a desktop over a laptop, unless you have some specific very power-hungry needs. A decent laptop does 95% of what a desktop does, and the few people who do need that 5% aren't in any doubt of what they need. (And even then, a lot of those needs could be served by an eGPU)

KozmoNau7 6y ago

Usually there isn't even been a choice to make. Everyone just gets a laptop with a docking station, standard configuration Lenovo/Dell/HP. If you want a desktop PC, you need dispensation based on tasks or specific needs. It's been over a decade since a laptop was a "status symbol". A laptop lets you take your work with you, instead of having to futz around with USB sticks and conference/meeting room PCs that never work quite right. Laptops also simplify WFH enormously, something that has only become even more relevant over the last year. When I started at my current workplace ~14 years ago some of my colleagues had a desktop PC at work and one at home. At my workplace before that, desktop PCs were still the default, which was a whole mess of RDP-ing to your main office PC when you were at the remote server room office, and you'd better hope that nobody had accidentally switched it off while you were away. Luckily for them, they were finally switching everyone to laptops shortly before I left. With processing power leveling out as it has over the last couple of years, there really isn't much reason to choose a desktop over a laptop, unless you have some specific very power-hungry needs. A decent laptop does 95% of what a desktop does, and the few people who do need that 5% aren't in any doubt of what they need. (And even then, a lot of those needs could be served by an eGPU)